Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-09-10

pIehHl Juno o. n savage, ana ne laughed
hysteiirally. Poor fellow whit betwocn hi,
wnmd aaid Tie killing excitement he had
undergone, his nerves were much shaken,
and no wonder 10 i hard upon man 81
peace and kindly heart to be called upon %
join III such q gfewsone business But there,
fate puts us sometimes into very ironicaI
positoesl
Az the kraa' entrance the scene was a
strange one. Tie slaughter was over by now.
and the wounded rlen bad been put out OF
their pain. for no quarter had been given.
Tho bush closed eutrnnce had been tIamplesl
fat, ami in place Of Luscs II was filed with
the bodies OF doad men. Dead men, every
where dead men; they lag about In knots,
they were lung by onss and twos ia every
! position upon the oper spaces, for all the
world IKE the people on the grass In one OF
the London parks on a particularly hot Sun
day in August. In front OF this entrance, on
a space which had been cleared Of dead, and
of tho shields and spears which were scattered
IN I'll directions as they bad fallen or been
thrown from the hands Of their owners, stood
and lay the survivors OF the awful struggle,
and at their feet were four wounded men,
We had gone into the 6glt thirty strong,
aud oftho thirty but fifteen remained alive,
and five Of them (ncluding Mr. Mac kenzie,
We're wounded, two niortaly or those who
held the entrance, Curtis aud the Zulu ulone
remained. Good bad lost I've men killed. /
iiuu lost two killed aud Mackenzie no less than
five out Of the six with him. As for the slr.
yivors, they were, with the exception Of my.
self, who had never come to close quarters,
red from head to fo0t-S Henrys af1nor
might have been painted hat color--aud
utterly exhausted, except U lsloPegaas, who,
as he stood on a little mount above heap OF
dead, leaning ms nsunl upon his ak, did not
seem particularly distressed, although The
skin over the hole in his head pnlpitated VIC
lently.
HAh, Macumazahnw he said to me as
limped up, feeling very sick, u told thee tina.
1t would DO good fight, and 1t has. Never
have / seen better, or one more braveIy
fought. AS for this iron Shirt surely It l.
'tagatp " tbewitched "nothng could picrceit
Had it not been for tho garment | should
have been there and he nodded toward the
great pile OF dead men beneath him.
u give it thee; thou art gallant man,
said Sir Henry, briefly.
"Kooslp answered the Zulu, deeply pleased
both ut the gift and Che compliment. Thou,
too, Incnbu, didst bear thyself as man. but
/ must give thee some lessons with tue ak:
thou dost waste thy stregth.n
just then Mackenzie asked about Flossie,
and we were all greatly relieved when one Of
the men said he had seen her flying towards
the house with her nurse. Then bearing such
of the wounded as could be moved at tile mo-
ment with us, we slowly made our way to
wards the mission house. spent with toll and
bloodshed, but with the glorious sense of vic
tory against overwhelming odds glowing III
our hearts, We had savel the life Of the
little maid AMI taught the Nasal of those
parts lesson that they will not forget for
ten years, but at what d cost
Painfully we made our way up the hill
which, but little more than an hour before.
we had descended undor such different cir
cumstances. AT the gate Of the wall stood
Mrs. Mackenzie waiting for US. When her
eyes fell upon US. however, che shrieked out
and covered her face with her hands, crying: |
Horrible! horlibely Nor we're her fears
allayed when she discovered her worthy hus-
band being borne upon an improvised |
stretcher; but her doubts as to the nature OF |
his injury were soon set at rest. Then, when |
in few brief words had told her the up |
shot Of the struggle (of wh ch Flossie who
had arrived in safety, had been able to ex-
plain something's she came up to me and sol
emily kissed me on the forehead
"God bless you all, Mr. Quatermanl YOU
have saved my child's life" she said, simply.
Then we went in and got our clothes off and
doctored our wounds. After that we had a
bath, and what luxury it wasl and having
clad ourselves in ordinary clothes, proceeded
to the dining room, where breakfast was set
as usual. When we were finishing our break
fast the door opened and in came little Flos
sic, very pale and lottery, but quite unhurt
She kissed us all and thanked us. | congrat.
ulated her on the presence Of mind she had
shown i'll shooting the Nasal with her Der.
ringer pistol and thereby saving her own lite.
ooh, don't talk CT itln she said, beginning
to cry hysterically; II shall never forget hi
lace as he went turning round and round,
never-I can see it now.
l advised her TO 80 to bod afd get some
sleep, which she did, and awoke Iii the even
ing Juliet recovered, SO far as her strength
was concerned. 1t struck me as an odd
hing that girl who could find the nerve to
shoot a huge black rIffiaii rushing to kill her
nth spear SHOULD have been so affected at
.he thought Of 1t afterwards; but it is, after
Ill, characteristic Of the SEX Poor Flossiel ] !
ear that her nerves will not get over that
light in the Nasal camp for many long
rear,
Wheil breakfast was over we all turned in
md had good sleep, only getting up in time
or dinner; after which meal VIC once more ,
adjourned, together with all the available
'opulation-men, women, youths and girls
0 the scene of the mornings slaughter, our
bject being to bury our own dead and get
id of the Masa; by finging them into the
ana river, which ran within fifty yards OF
he kranl ,
We buried our deadi in solemn silence, !
iood being selected TO read the burial ses ! /;
leo over them lin the absence OF Mr.. Mac Z
enzie, confined to bed), rs he was generally r
lowed to possess the best voice aud most 4
IMPRESSIVE manner. 1t was melancholy in 4
he extreme, hut, as Good said it might have g
cen worse, for we might have mad ito bury /
nrselyes." | pointed out that this would '
ave been difficult feat. but knew what L
2 meant. 2
Next we set to work to load an OK wagon :
hich had been brought round from the !
Lission with the dead bodies of the Nasal, :
lving first collected the spears, shields and n
.her arms. We loaded the wagon five times, i
aout fifty boflies to the load and a,,,ntia,l a. :